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I was going to do the concrete for one of the posts today but Mother Nature decided to throw a bunch of rain at us again. Better than the snow she surprised us with on Monday, May 1.

So, I adjourned to the workshop to see if I can come to terms with the new MIG welder and at least get proficient enough to safely weld a few brackets and support pieces together. But first, it was experimentation time with the MIG and stick welder capabilities to see what type of bead I got from various voltages and wire speed on some 1/4" metal pieces I picked up from a local metal shop. While I think I am narrowing in on the best settings for the MIG, I still need to do a lot of practicing with those settings before welding the "real" parts of the setup.

The straight lines on the right are my baselines with what I think are close to what I need. The rest, especially the little section I welded on the left, were just about blowing the puddle right off the welding table. I also did a few passes with a 6011 rod on the stick welder just to see how it penetrated at the higher settings. I think if I turn it down, instead of MIG on the brackets I could also just use the 6011 rod for the first run followed by 7018 to fill it in.

My Dad would shake his head at what I did to this sad, innocent piece of metal. And then teach me what I don't know. Arc welding in high school was a long time ago.

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<blockquote data-quote="TimmyTheTorch" data-source="post: 816018" data-attributes="member: 64271">I was going to do the concrete for one of the posts today but Mother Nature decided to throw a bunch of rain at us again. Better than the snow she surprised us with on Monday, May 1.So, I adjourned to the workshop to see if I can come to terms with the new MIG welder and at least get proficient enough to safely weld a few brackets and support pieces together. But first, it was experimentation time with the MIG and stick welder capabilities to see what type of bead I got from various voltages and wire speed on some 1/4&quot; metal pieces I picked up from a local metal shop. While I think I am narrowing in on the best settings for the MIG, I still need to do a lot of practicing with those settings before welding the &quot;real&quot; parts of the setup. The straight lines on the right are my baselines with what I think are close to what I need. The rest, especially the little section I welded on the left, were just about blowing the puddle right off the welding table. I also did a few passes with a 6011 rod on the stick welder just to see how it penetrated at the higher settings. I think if I turn it down, instead of MIG on the brackets I could also just use the 6011 rod for the first run followed by 7018 to fill it in.My Dad would shake his head at what I did to this sad, innocent piece of metal. And then teach me what I don&#039;t know. Arc welding in high school was a long time ago.[ATTACH=full]63717[/ATTACH]</blockquote>

[QUOTE="TimmyTheTorch, post: 816018, member: 64271"] I was going to do the concrete for one of the posts today but Mother Nature decided to throw a bunch of rain at us again. Better than the snow she surprised us with on Monday, May 1. So, I adjourned to the workshop to see if I can come to terms with the new MIG welder and at least get proficient enough to safely weld a few brackets and support pieces together. But first, it was experimentation time with the MIG and stick welder capabilities to see what type of bead I got from various voltages and wire speed on some 1/4" metal pieces I picked up from a local metal shop. While I think I am narrowing in on the best settings for the MIG, I still need to do a lot of practicing with those settings before welding the "real" parts of the setup. The straight lines on the right are my baselines with what I think are close to what I need. The rest, especially the little section I welded on the left, were just about blowing the puddle right off the welding table. I also did a few passes with a 6011 rod on the stick welder just to see how it penetrated at the higher settings. I think if I turn it down, instead of MIG on the brackets I could also just use the 6011 rod for the first run followed by 7018 to fill it in. My Dad would shake his head at what I did to this sad, innocent piece of metal. And then teach me what I don't know. Arc welding in high school was a long time ago. [ATTACH type="full"]63717[/ATTACH] [/QUOTE]

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